About

Aims and scope

Agricultural and Food Economics is an international peer-reviewed journal published on behalf of the Italian Society of Agricultural Economics. The editors welcome high-quality, problem-oriented submissions on agriculture and food from a wide variety of socio-economic perspectives and from all over the world.

Why publish your article in Agricultural and Food Economics?

High visibility

Agricultural and Food Economics's open access policy allows maximum visibility of articles published in the journal as they are available to a wide, global audience.

Speed of publication

Agricultural and Food Economics offers a fast publication schedule whilst maintaining rigorous peer review; all articles must be submitted online, and peer review is managed fully electronically (articles are distributed in PDF form, which is automatically generated from the submitted files). Articles will be published with their final citation after acceptance, in both fully browsable web form, and as a formatted PDF; the article will then be available through Agricultural and Food Economics and SpringerOpen.

Flexibility

Online publication in Agricultural and Food Economics gives you the opportunity to publish large datasets, large numbers of color illustrations and moving pictures, to display data in a form that can be read directly by other software packages so as to allow readers to manipulate the data for themselves, and to create all relevant links (for example, to PubMed, to sequence and other databases, and to other articles).

Promotion and press coverage

Articles published in Agricultural and Food Economics are included in article alerts and regular email updates. In addition, articles published in Agricultural and Food Economics may be promoted by press releases to the general or scientific press. These activities increase the exposure and number of accesses for articles published in Agricultural and Food Economics.

Copyright

Authors of articles published in Agricultural and Food Economics retain the copyright of their articles and are free to reproduce and disseminate their work (for further details, see the copyright and license agreement).

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Open access

All articles published by the Agricultural and Food Economics are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication, without subscription charges or registration barriers. Further information about open access can be found here.

As authors of articles published in the Agricultural and Food Economics​​​​​​​ you are the copyright holders of your article and have granted to any third party, in advance and in perpetuity, the right to use, reproduce or disseminate your article, according to the SpringerOpen copyright and license agreement.

For those of you who are US government employees or are prevented from being copyright holders for similar reasons, SpringerOpen can accommodate non-standard copyright lines. Please contact us if further information is needed.

Article-processing charges

Open access publishing is not without costs. Agricultural and Food Economics therefore levies an article-processing charge of £510.00/$800.00/€650.00 for each article accepted for publication.

If the corresponding author's institution participates in our open access membership program, some or all of the publication cost may be covered (more details available on the membership page). We routinely waive charges for authors from low-income countries. For other countries, article-processing charge waivers or discounts are granted on a case-by-case basis to authors with insufficient funds. Authors can request a waiver or discount during the submission process. For further details, see our article-processing charge page.

SpringerOpen provides a free open access funding support service to help authors discover and apply for article processing charge funding. Visit our OA funding and policy support page to view our list of research funders and institutions that provide funding for APCs, and to learn more about our email support service.

APC coverage and discounts

Agricultural and Food Economics operates a membership program to cover some or all of the €650/£510/$800 article processing charge.

If the corresponding author is a member of SIDEA, the cost of the article processing charge is covered in full by the membership, and no further charge is payable. To claim this discount, the corresponding author must enter the membership code when prompted. This can be requested from their SIDEA representative.

If the corresponding author is not a member of SIDEA, they need only to pay €100/£80/$125, with the remaining €550/£430/$675 paid by SIDEA.

Indexing services

All articles published in ​Agricultural and Food Economics are included in:

DOAJ

EconLit

Google Scholar

OCLC

RePEc

Scopus

Summon by ProQuest

The full text of all articles is deposited in digital archives around the world to guarantee long-term digital preservation. You can also access all articles published by SpringerOpen on SpringerLink.We are working closely with relevant indexing services, including Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics), to ensure that articles published in Agricultural and Food Economics will be available in their databases when appropriate.

Peer-review policy

Peer review is the system used to assess the quality of a manuscript before it is published. Independent researchers in the relevant research area assess submitted manuscripts for originality, validity and significance to help. Editors determine whether the manuscript should be published in their journal. You can read more about the peer-review process here.

Agricultural and Food Economics operates a double-blind peer-review system, where the reviewers do not know the names or affiliations of the authors and the reviewer reports provided to the authors are anonymous.

The benefit of double-blind peer review is that it allows reviewers to judge the manuscript based on content alone, and they are not unconsciously biased by knowledge of who the authors are.

Submitted manuscripts will generally be reviewed by two or more experts who will be asked to evaluate whether the manuscript is scientifically sound and coherent, whether it duplicates already published work, and whether or not the manuscript is sufficiently clear for publication.The Editors will reach a decision based on these reports and, where necessary, they will consult with Associate Editors.

Editorial policies

All manuscripts submitted to Agricultural and Food Economics should adhere to SpringerOpen's editorial policies.

Once your article is accepted, it will be processed by production and published shortly afterwards. In some cases, articles may be held for a short period of time prior to publication. If you have any concerns or particular requirements please contact the Journal.

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Citing articles in Agricultural and Food Economics

Articles in Agricultural and Food Economics should be cited in the same way as articles in a traditional journal. Because articles are not printed, they do not have page numbers; instead, they are given a unique article number.